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Definition :

A liquid appearing like a heavy oil colorless or yellowish and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate also called trinitroglycerin and glyceryl trinitrate It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion